Hello, I'm Xanes.
Backend Engineer &
Developer Tools Builder.
I build reliable software, automation tools, and AI-powered systems — focused on performance, developer experience, and real-world impact.
Now
Actively building
Current work — larger bets that are moving every week.
In development
Kortex
A job-scraping and application platform that discovers relevant roles across multiple job boards, deduplicates and scores them by relevance, and surfaces matches through a clean dashboard — built to cut through the noise of manual job hunting.
Multi-phase build — scraping engine, relevance scoring, and dashboard shipped; in active development
In development
nexus
A no-code desktop app for generative visual effects — wraps TouchDesigner through a WebSocket bridge so creators can build real-time visuals without writing shader code.
Bridges a no-code interface to a professional VFX engine in real time
Shipped
Shipped projects
Live products and tools people can use today.
Flagship — open source
devklean
A CLI tool that finds and safely removes build artifacts across your dev projects — zero data-loss guarantee via safe-delete, not permanent rm.
Published on PyPI · actively maintained with community contributions
ShieldPay
A real-time fraud intelligence dashboard for merchants — combines behavioral fingerprinting with an ML ensemble (IsolationForest + XGBoost) to flag suspicious transactions as they happen, built for a hackathon with a genuine production mindset.
Cross-merchant fraud pattern detection with a live retraining loop
Cardano-Treasury-Explorer
An on-chain treasury monitor for Cardano — tracks governance and treasury activity via Blockfrost and posts structured updates to X, descoped from deeper Hydra L2 research into something focused and shippable.
Live mainnet data — real treasury and epoch tracking, not a demo
Whispr
An AI-powered Telegram reminder bot — understands natural language scheduling requests via NLP, backed by a Redis-based job queue for reliable delivery. Live and in daily use.
Live product, not a prototype
Research prototype
x-hydra-tweet-engine
A research prototype broadcasting real-time Cardano Hydra Head state to X/Twitter — built at Blockprint to explore what Hydra L2 activity looks like surfaced publicly, live.
Early exploration of Hydra L2 real-time state broadcasting
Experience
Where I've worked
Full-Stack Developer & Researcher
September 2025 — Present
Blockprint
Building Cardano-ecosystem tooling end to end — from on-chain identity research to live automation bots, owning engineering across the stack. Remote, Lagos, Nigeria.
- Design and build SoulNode, a CIP-68 soul-bound identity platform on Cardano — writing on-chain validators in Aiken and prototyping the protocol spec in Haskell.
- Ship production on-chain automation bots (Xhydra Bot, Cardano Treasury Bot) integrating the Blockfrost API and Cardano's Hydra Layer-2 for real-time data and settlement.
- Own the full-stack delivery pipeline end to end: FastAPI/Express services, Next.js/React front ends, and Dockerized CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
CardanoAikenHaskellHydra L2Blockfrost APIFastAPINext.jsDockerGitHub Actions
Stack
Tools I work with
Languages
Backend
Frontend
Databases
Cloud & DevOps
AI
Open source
Built in the open
Tools I maintain publicly — used, forked, and improved by other developers.
devklean
Scans your dev directories for build artifacts — node_modules, .venv, caches — and reclaims disk space with a safe-delete guarantee. Published on PyPI and maintained with community contributions.
v1.1.0 on PyPI · 2 contributors
Try it
pip install devklean51% curious 49% dev